The collective campaign organizes its efforts around three central tenets — to advocate, organize and reclaim student self-governance — all students on Grounds should have a voice at the University.
The Academical Village is meant to represent the entire University — all of its schools and disciplines, a wide range of extracurricular organizations and a collection of lived experiences.
Demand something more from your Committee and vote on representatives who will bring you meaningful change next year.
I love this University, and I am proud to be a part of it — not despite its flaws, but because I know there are students relentlessly working to change them.
Trigger Warning — this column discusses suicidal thoughts.
This desire to find the perfect product — or even that we are obligated to purchase in order to appease loved ones — does nothing but hurt the way we love.
We may associate Zoom courses with the loss of a normal college experience, but I believe we should embrace the convenience and integrate virtual meetings into University life.
Expulsion also fails the practical needs of our community by disincentivizing reporting and affecting juries.
If the University wants to spur positive change, it must divest its endowment from a backward industry that is actively destroying the environment.
The Editorial Board adamantly believes that each of these three candidates will dedicate themselves to ensuring that Student Council is accessible, accountable and serves the needs of all students on Grounds.
The Editorial Board firmly believes that these candidates, if elected, will dedicate themselves towards creating a diverse and rehabilitative UJC for the betterment of all students on Grounds.
However, this voting period is especially important — the spring 2022 ballot addresses a multitude of pertinent issues for students.
I sincerely hope the Youngkin administration reevaluates its early decisions and changes course.
An effective solution to the issue of Veoride scooters scattered across the streets of Charlottesville would be to install proper docks — doubling as recharging stations — for the scooters.
The existence of grades themselves is inefficient and does nothing but create universal, unrealistic standards that students are expected to meet.
Investment in companies like Shell that are moving to renewables are tethered to less risk and have a steady return compared to oil companies who are idle in green technology and asset dry startups within the energy industry.
The problem that most of America is facing is that these initial reservations for the vaccine are not changing, no matter how much information is gathered or myths debunked.
First-year students tend to segregate by race, geography and socioeconomic background — a trend that, for the most part, continues throughout their remaining years.
All this is to say that the culture of poverty is a myth that both excuses and obscures injustices endured by impoverished individuals.
If we are to remain in-person for the rest of the semester, it logically follows that we should have a backup plan for when students inevitably contract COVID-19.
